The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1905, Page 8

“Entered at the Post-Ofice at Now York as Hecond-Clams Mall Matter, seseeseeNO. 18,048, i HE LITTLE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE, Bes 1X.--What to Afford. PGVOLUME 405....... afford it’—and to live up to the saying—as it is in our own, eald mining what we shall spend and how we shall spend {t, h is just as true and as pertinent now as It was then: A man has need, if he be plentiful in gome kind of expense, to be as saving ‘again In some other. As, if he be plentiful in diet, to be saving in apparel, and Whe like; for he that |s plentiful in expenses of all kinds will hardly be preserved from misfortune, e . ° What to “‘afford,” within one’s means, is therefore a matter of choice ‘or selection, Most of the serious minor mistakes of life come from the {The social philosopher or political economist who shall cause people to see wividly and to understand clearly the widely differing possibilities that lle ‘within ten, twenty, a hundred, five hundred or five thousand dollars will the a benefactor of his race, So many think only of what It will send down thelr throats or put _ upon their backs or add to their power to advertise its possession. The capacity,to use money wisely is so much rarer than the ability to accu, _ mulate it! Some things, however, it ought to be held by general agreement that ‘we cannot afford. No man can afford to ruin his health in a struggle for wealth; to sacrifice character or convictions for success; to let his brains lie fallow that he may work; to neglect hjs family in order to be thought 2 “good fellow” outside, There ate likewise many things that we cannot afford not to afford— so to speak. The vacation time of the year is approaching, and people are beginning to think about their summer rest and pleasure. It is one of the most hopeful signs of the times that what a few years ago was the | pastime and indulgence of the rich Is becoming the habit of the majority. ) Whe high-pressure speed at which business, professional, public and social ‘was driven was fast making us a nervously “‘unstrung’’ nation. +) It is not yet too early for those who are to take a vacation to perfect their plans, nor too late for those who think they ‘can’t afford it” to re- “consider. It will very likely prove a blessing if the necessity for economy ' shall keep any away from the great pleasure resorts of fashion and folly - and send, them to the quieter places—to the woods, the seashore, tha pmountains or for a taste of real country life, The things we can afford a || we cannot afford. LJ e ° The mistake as to necessities causes a large share of the imhappiness | tn the average life. It is wonderful, for example, how little difference it ‘makes with one at the end of a year whether he or she has wom many isuits of clothing or few—whether they have been rich or plain, fashion- able or out of style. The consciousness of being fittingly dressed, as one cof New England’s talented women writers confessed, may “give a feeling | yof serenity which religion cannot bestow.” But rational people are finding out with encouraging rapidity that the little world of one’s real friends cares vastly less what raiment one wears than for the heart behind the bodice or the brain beneath the hat—while the outside world, for whose eyes so many drgss, as “Poor Richard” says, cares nothing at all. Imerpreted as it was meant, there is truth enough in Emerson's re- mark that “it is not what is on the plates, but what is said over them that BF makes the feast.” And yet it is known that Mr, Emerson loved pie, even - for breakfast, and was not averse to a good dinner. Nevertheless a vast deal of money is wasted on the tables of those who need to practise econ- » omy in order to provide for the “things of the spirit.” Nobody ever suffered for lack of dessert if the dinner was good and sufficient. No - and dinner tables, As for the many-coursed dyspepsia-breeders, any man who will spend his money for them when there are so many ways in which he could harmlessly lose it is undeserving of pity. * * * There is, of course, a lot of hypocrisy and meanness sometimes hid- den behind the saying, “We can’t afford it; and we rather sympathized With that philosopher friend who forbade its use in his home, By one of the unaccountable allotments of life he was of necessity economical; but he taught his family to say: “We do not choose to go”—"We prefex something else.” Used in a frank manly or womanly spirit the expres- sion is honorable, and if it were oftener heard in American families the Individual and the general result would be far happier, Yet the real test both of judgment and of courage {s in deciding what to afford, and sticking to it in spite of Mrs. Grundy or any other busy- body. The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers To the Editor of Th ¥ist the opposite. J.B, ,after fifteen or twenty years of service, No, They Are Not Eligible. pay. AO HL fo the Editor of The Eventing World: Please say in your most conventont The Neltry Murder, issue, \s a Japanese or Chinaman ell-| To the Editor of The Bvenine Worid fo to citizenship in United States?) What munter was committed In a is any Mahometan? 7, C, €, |ehuroh in Ban Francisco some y’ rs Onleriam a New Disease. ago? It was known as the belfry mur- ¥ der, GR. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World | Ong 3 ERE Wea ihel tary Aiavonce: tt in Easter, 1894, in the Emmanue! Bap- Theodore Durant, who was hanged fv Sshners, concelt and lazine MEORCre READY MO WER NAN ERY fur tt Attacks tho working c! gutbreak of this epidemiy ap- Prired among the railroad magnatos, bo Yefuaed to reinstate men of over iy, rdiess of the eafcty of the Improvements Belong to Landlord, To the Editor of The Eventing World: Five years ago I leased the house which I now ocoupy. I then put in 4 by the Presa Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Pars Row, New Tork Ao no other country in the world is it so hard for people to say, “We French frugality, German thrift and English independence are all d upon living according to your station and well within your means id of beyond them. But here, except among the very poor, there General desire not merely to “keep up appearances,” but to seem to be aOre prosperous than we really are, Benjamin Franklin never com Sed’ more truth into one of “Poor Richard's Maxims’’ than when he ‘It is other people's eyes that ruin us.” In spite of our boasted inde- the Side. ILL at Albany to make the use of B profane language over the tel phone puntshable with fine or im- prinonment, Wires carry warm lan- wiloge ut times, but "Central's ears are not often offended by oaths. General observation that swearing 1s passing Into disuse in Ametica, the change with- in @ quarter of a century being note- worthy, The masculine temper is under botter control than it used to be, pow: idly because of the same business in: fluences which are declared to hi falsed the standard of common courtesy, and of veracity, Man who onee thought & vocabulary af oaths necessary to em- Phasize his utterances finds now that) they merely wéaken his argument. eo 6 6 Motorman's vestibule bill gavorably reported in committee, Has reached the | pendence, “what people will think”’ or say has a strong influence in deter-| “woman fairtte at Ment of ouratar,” il Writing nearly three hundred years ago Lord Bacon laid down a rule are often # great deal better for us and for all concerned than the things q normal appetite requires the variety that cumbers the average breakfast | 7", Where Are More Men, |which would agree to employ worthy Byening World: land intelligent men of forty or more A claims that there are more women | with an Increase of their pay every five Awan men in the world, while B clams | Years and @ pension at the age of sixty or Ughter work without reduction of ust Church, San Francisco, Blanche | natural etate. Lamont was murdered tn the belfry and Minnle Willams {n the lfrary by | | "Where our ancestors would have con- Assembly vestibule, as it were «oe Noted only as showing that there are still exceptions to the rule, oe Digging for gold now in the Broax. Real estate prea agent must have re- turned from his vacation, eo. ° Baltimore girl wine @ Heldelberg Ph. D, Prosit and a &chmollis by the corps for the fair fellow-student trom over But what would Kathie and Kar) have thought of such honors for a i ert? eo 8 6 Don't worry about your health. Keep in good condition and get as much fresh air as you can, People who are alwaye puttering over themselves are Wke misere—they don't enjoy what thoy have,—Boa- ton Traveler, oe e Discovery that the man who was ‘lown ihrough the tunnel ts ative wa probably delayed by a preliminary search for him in the dime museums. e . Way of the cigarette grows yet harder fnd more arduous, Smoking of the noxious rolls now forbidden in the sta- tions or on the passonger trains of the Philadelphia end Reading Railroad, Wisconsin bill making it an offense to give them away now a law by the Gov- ernor's signature, Law with similar provisions expevted to go into effect in Indiana through the Governor's proc- Iamation at any moment. Cigarettes under legislative ban in Tennessee al- ready, and ation agains them un- der way in Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan Minneduta and South Dakota The y has witnessed @ succel nat of defeats for the lobby fotces of the trus! which it 1s necea#ary to go to Russia or & parallel. 2OG0O4OO: a POSLOTS IO IOEBOGES eee in Only two deaths from escaping gas in London last year, Conservative Brith gas companies cannot have learned the mrperior American process of making aj ‘ cheap flluminating fluld from water and ne eo ee By giving nine public hearings in four minutes the Mayor qualifies for a posi- tion as judge in @ Kansas City divorce § court OOO OO2 oe “No woman ever looks ugly or even fue in a hansom," says the Country Gentleman. Bhe wits framed by the oab, looking qut of an open window, ‘and, while she can seo most comtort- ably and comoletely from her, seat, oan be esdn by thove al paeses most charmingly enshrined.” Gallery of living nloturse so fremed to be seen on the avenues of afternoons corroborates this option, tle. Cholly (examining first print from the negative)—Ian't there some way to make my mustache show a little plainer? Photographer — Why, yes; you might walt a few years and then come again, . e ° Little decd of windness by a school- ma'am to an old man ten yeans ago! rewarded by a bequest of §%6, Nu-/ merous instances In the news columns during tho year of like substantial cash appreciation for tmall favors done tn time of need Indicate that sense of gratitude Is not wholly exinct, . . Newest circus in town mobbed by ould-be patrons unable to gain en- trance, Coney Island prepare} for @ record season and popular shows of all kinds overflowing. Always enough ready cash in the greater o.ty for amusement novelties, Figures showing an attend- ance of 1,000,000 at the free lectures are interesting as testimony to the more serious elde of popular amusement sctk- Dowager was lately presented with a sewing-machine, with which she 18 0 machines, Empress said to bo anxious ¢o start a schoo) of industry and art In the palace, the ‘hands to be com- powed of the daughters of princes, nobles, high ministers and court of- clals. Now, 4f somebody will give the Emperor a devil wagon the invasion of the Celestial Kingdom by the foreign devils will become serious, oe e Fact that the Governor of Nebranka took time trom his executive duties to build his fence {8 interesting mainly because it was a board fence, eee “But how did you happen to per- mit the man to buneo your” “Why, to tell you the truth, I went into the game thinking there twas a chance to bunco him."—Chi- cago Journal, * 8 Further triumphs for the hen. A chemist of Wiesbaden has found the means of making ewgs useful for the cure of certain maiadies—anaemia, for Instance, By means of special breed- ing and feeding he Increases in a very notable proportion the quantity of iron which the egg# contain tn thelr Complaint by a London critte that tho world is growing too kind-hearted; demned a man outright, and allowed nobody to dream of wiltewashing him, we taik about temperament and hored- {tv and a dozen such things, stationary tubs, now the owner ralees my rent and I am going to move, aginadle,” But the theory ha; it yet be to organise| Can I take the tubs with me, as the| entirely away with the. practice | members of ran out? CG. H | of astio punishment can excuse anybody for any SE eee ra tal Saath taatina GMMERIRA Aaaldicboak fo eases tal Ter April 185 Saturday Evenin “Magazine, Sa i d on DODDS LL 4.8 99-96 HFHH-HE OPLHHHOHOODHHHHHHOHHI OHHH HOHE L HHH HGH 94 OE FLOODING 4DOHHHHDLHHCE HOOD HHH ESHHSHHHOHHHOHILD, World's Home. Dddo The Democratic Medley. By ». Campbell Cory. GOVERNMENT OwnersH!| ——P NO CENTRALIZATION VeOee POECYs 90000OO CE D5 29OO ICO oR AN MUSIC £0. B:M‘CLELLA BLOBOEDIODPPELOODSA COD SSODOOGHPOSTE OLE HOS L0G. 0-900. 990GO9 226 OSS ES IO2OHOR 282944406 POH4DSOCALHOSDNDHY CO4DO0OC0OOCEOOILOIDOD HOI DI DL HSL P DURING LE HOCH PHONED H A Genuine Misfit. Spiritual Telephones. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. in St.' this uncommercial variety who takes pued her husband to an Ibsen matinee and his wife for @ighs over the groseness of his nature Mvoroe becuse he|!f he goes to sleep “When We Dead Masmed she was a|AWsike.” It is she who gets hold of Thig| the latest utterance of the last Baxter street graduate who has turned him- self Into a sun worshipper and fills a |tlved husband's ears with silly rav- |Ings over the occult, The strongest trait of the feminine common sense. more impressed than the other night in witnessing a tlttle one-act play 3 forces a man and woman unknown to him to turn back from a conte’ Just as the young man was and giving to the pralsoworthy burgiar a written confession that will forever keep him and the woman apart, common-sense matron In the back row said oxeltedly to her husband: “But how did the burglar know that the young man signed his real name?” I thought then {t was a good thing at dramatic critics are not women, helr common sense would destroy al- mort any play ever written if they were, didn't Jutlet, who had been properly married to Romeo, go with him whea he was banished? no better reason than because huyo been no play if she had, Now women who dabble tn the occult, who think they are spiritual telephones or xylophoaes or megaphones, is the have no common sense a\ therefore every State in the Umion should tollow the progressive ex- le of Missoum and make the bellet Bround for Immediate divorce. she denied, assert- | ing that she merely tiated ial telephone'' be- een the seen and halt the worrtos and we troubles I have vou would be Insane, but you newer think I with this fact in which a bur almply becauso | doRoy L, McCardell, not mo around complaining and telling tne Japanese cause all the riots in my troubles to any one! Della wants more money or sho says ahe will ault, Btryver has offered moro to do her upstairs work, “I never thought Mrs, Stryver would play me such a mean trick as to tam- per with my servants, wouldn't put {t past her, "T always <i suspect her and I al- aways told you eo, but you, of course, I know ft waa Busin Terwilliger that put Mrs, Stryver up to/¢M but it ts all the same, because he {t, for I know that Susan Terwiliger maken herself free with Delia. week I bought @ brooch for Delia that cost me nearly a dollar and you know I got her aprons the too-earthly There D who, although they are not profess: this kind, seem because Mrs, frauds her $ @& month the belief that only means of communicaty base man and higher heaven. 1s no possession upon which the aver age woman with a thirty-ingh walst es herself more than on her spit’ and even though site has band who looks ike an understudy to Chick—My name Is Henrietta Ham. Liza—Huh! What, for a thin chile like you? es Nibbling Time. such a fat name ualit stood up tot her, the force which Ifted him to spirit- 1 ta or helped him take Emerson's edvice and hitch his wagun| Report from China that the Emprers{ to a star, Woiuen ef unis kind not only belleve In thelr extreme spirituality, pleased that sho has ordered, three} tually impose their bellef upon men— more and also a couple of knitting-| yes, They have no gratitude, and just be- cause I told Delia whe would have to go if she didn't do her work better she hd the émpudence to toll me she could get & @ month more at Mra, on some men, seen them cat, It {8 the “spiritual telephone" of "! think you ought to go down to Quarantine or Staten Island Ferry, or wherever the emigrants come tn, and wet me a couple of good servants who don’t understand mans aro tho be Absolute Protection. and I can talk a Uttle French, and maybe they will tn derstand that, because when I wont to The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial.. “How's the fishin’ Dilly Jinks sez they're bitin’ git behind a tree) wo fast he had to badt his hoo! Oe eee ale The Care of the Eyes. EOPLE WHO RECOGNIZE the !m- portance of taking care of thelr health often nuilte forget that if wo want to presurve them Mt te just as necessary to take care of our eyes, First of all, take care of your general often leads dndt- rectly to various eye troublen, Then, remember that straining of the eyes is caused by a dazzling glare, or a Fine Words from George! (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) would have ROARED! : We have already shown how only the GOOD can afford to be BAD. The Mayor shows us how to SEE and be BLIND! i But greed and graft form part of a “Business” administration, , They furnish the “Business” end of it. “SEEING” In politics m 1 FIXING the right man, Some Mayors keep HONEST themselves — by letting the other fellows loose, In this way TEMPTATION, “removed.” The OTHCK fellows “remove” It. FINE WORDS do not always make FINE Glare and gloom are equally bad to You need not ask which is the worse for the eyes—one is as bad ‘The light shold fall on book or worl from behind us, Tho attitude while at work is of great importance, oma DI far as pos irareter| P| ad and Native—Dhia ts my storm-proot cyclone cellar. Visitor—Why, you don't have cyclon: Native-Buri "L guess you haven't acon en wate yes The Man — Higher Up. By Martin Green. SHB," sald the Cigar Store 66 Man, “that the Legislature has put an awful crimp in the Board of Aldermen,” "Dear old Legisiatw: erled the Man Higher Up. “So thoughtful of the interests of New York—I forget. There may have been funnier propositions of recent dato jthan the action of the Legislature in mantcuring the powers of the Board of Aldermen of this city, but if so, it has been kept under cover, “The Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Cities, a gentleman from Ontarlo County, made a moving plea for the deliverance of the peo- ple ot New York from the Board of Aldermen, The population of On- tario County {s 49,377, and of Can- andatgua, the home of John Raines and the county seat, 5,726, There are more people in a falr-sized office | bullding in New York than there are in Canandaigua, “Nevertheless, this Ontario County statesman, a Republican, with the ine terests of the people of Demovratic New York City (who never heard of him) at heart, adds bis voice and his vote to the job to do away with the powers of the Board of Alder~ men, He clamored like a house afire to have the clutches of the Board of Aldermen removed from the throat of the city, and there wasn’t a New York City voter in sight to back up his scream, “At the very time that the {m- maculate Assembly was voting to curtail the powers of the Board of Aldermen—for fear that the Alder men might not be good—there was a scurrying to cover !n Albany under the spot light of publicity that look- ed like a Roosevelt Jackrabbit hunt, Open accusations had been printed that there were legislators in the Assembly who could be bribed to vote for the Niagara Power grab. “The name of the man who had the boodle fund was printed. The iden- tity of the crooked legislators was hinted at. Fear of public condemna- tion was all that kept them from passing the bill, and while they were .; hunting for holes to hide in they voted to take away from the men the people of this city elected as | Aldermen the power to award fran- | chises. There must have been great amusement in Albany last night among the members of the Black | Horse Cavalry,” “Case of the pot calling the kettle | black,” suggested the Cigar Btore | Man. “The pot calling the kettle black was a snowball contest compared to this performance,” replied the Man Higher Up. Mrs. Nagg and Mr.—= .. By Roy L. McCardell... .« hgh school I took a lot of French lee sons, and when I read a novel I know what ‘Mon Dieu' means, and maybe we could get along without Della. “I don't see how you oan alt there Teading a newpaper and not caring how worrted I'am, If I was a woman that went around complaining all the time {t might bo different. Mr, and Mrs, Ladyfinger do not have any trou- ble with thelr servants, because they live with Mra, Ladyfinger's mother, and she has Japanese servants and pays them a lot of money and they always look ro neat, and that is the reason Russie, becuuse the Rusetans do not make good servants, “That's right, Mr, Nag, sneer dt met You know that when wo lived In Brook- lyn the @winks bought thelr ftreah vegetables frpm a Russian thet hed a market gardén near Flushing and he deat and didn't under very well, and he wore & fur cap that he had brought from Rus- ela, no, now I think of It, it was Swed~ was a pale man with blond whiskers and his horse was so lame that the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took It away from him aad shot it, although everybody knows tt te crue! to shoot dumb animats, “What are you grinning at me for, Mr, Nagg? Why don't you be a sensl- ble man and try to help me out of my weet ts mi a to "Go to your office and leave me to m: silent sorrow! You only laugh et m4 frouble, and you are breaking my eat!" ee EEE MEASUREMENTS, ‘Tis mid that poetry has feet; Perhaps that kind comes hard, ‘The wort that you most often mest Seems written by the yard, —Washington Star, We see that our “Little” Mayor Is aut against GREED In paliticy, Murphy was tn the audience, ~ Hedid NOT laugh, This fs be- , cause he is a SILENT MAN. If, Murphy KNEW HOW to laugh he - MAYURS,